Mr. Speaker, I want to especially thank the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Franks), the subcommittee chairman, because, were it not for his leadership and attention to the Southeast Federal Center, we would not finally be on the path…

I would certainly like to reinforce what the gentleman is saying about protesters coming here with respect to the WTO. I would hope that in the city of Washington we do not have a repeat of what happened in the State of Washington. The…

I come to the floor to let the House know that a decision has been handed down in a consolidated case, the Adams case and the Alexander case, challenging the denial of full voting rights in the House and the Senate to the residents of the…

Mr. Speaker, I wanted to come to speak specifically on the rule, because it is the rule that shows that this body is not serious about achieving consensus on this very serious and troublesome question. Because there is, after all, an…

Census forms are due. The Census form, the short form, is impressively short. It takes less than 10 minutes to fill out. I urge Members to help raise consciousness and raise the heat to get these forms back. I am having a job fair in my…

I first met Aaron Henry in 1963 when, as a law student and member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, I went into the delta in Mississippi to work in the civil rights movement one summer. The civil rights movement had circled…

Mr. Speaker, every Member here owes appreciation to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster), the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar), to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Duncan), and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Lipinski)…

periodically, I come before this body simply to inform it about the state of the District of Columbia. Mayor Tony Williams gave his State of the District address this week. Only one year after taking office, he was able to show significant…

H.R. 3018, as amended, names certain facilities of the U.S. Postal Service in South Carolina: The United States Post Office, located at 557 East Bay Street in Charleston, South Carolina, as the Marybelle H. Howe Post Office; the United…

I come to the floor to report to my colleagues something that I am certain is as much of a piece of embarrassment to them as it is to me, and that is that on February 29 a Federal Court declared a class in a lawsuit against the Architect…

as crime has increased, police have been given freer and freer rein. It is time to reign them in. That is the lesson of the New York City Diallo case. It is difficult to fault a racially integrated jury, but they have written only the…

Even more so, I thank her for the leadership she is showing in making sure that the month of February does not go by without yet another black history celebration in the name of her predecessor... If I may say to the gentlewoman, I would…

may I begin by thanking the leadership, and especially the gentlemen from Texas, Mr. Armey and Mr. Delay, for their great cooperation and courtesy to me in delaying this bill until the end of the day. I had to attend a funeral this morning…

Mr. Speaker, when Republicans and Democrats support basically the same idea, the people expect us to come together and get together. Instead, the Republicans have drafted their bill in secret, as if this were a one-party state. If we look…

I come to the floor to welcome back Members. Welcome back to the city that is still on the rise, about to report another surplus. Welcome back to the city that has been substantially helped by this Congress. Welcome back to a city whose…

Of course, as a former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, I am always pleased to see something on the agenda that relates to civil rights enforcement. A few weeks ago I was at the White House with a 101-year-old woman…

I want to thank him for all of his hard work on the issues that face this House. There is no one more indefatigable in forcing us to face the issues than the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone). I think it is a very good idea for us to…

this will be remembered as less than a do-nothing Congress. It is the do-harm Congress, because we are squandering a unique opportunity to begin fixing Social Security and Medicare. When my colleagues cannot even get out 13 appropriations…

H.R. 974, the D.C. College Access Act, facing its final House consideration today, is a splendid and near typical example of the bipartisan way in which the gentleman from Virginia and I have worked together since he became chair of the…

no one should forget where the tragedy at Columbine began; not in the suburbs of Colorado, but in the streets of the inner cities, where guns were first made available like free lunch. Now, astonishingly and tragically, that is the case…

Mr. Speaker, the Congress has forced me and D.C. elected officials to the outrageous position of opposing our own appropriation. No local budget has any business here, but the least D.C. residents are entitled to is respect. Once their…

to clarify on the court suit, the measure in the bill keeps our corporation counsel, the one lawyer with expertise in District affairs, from even looking at the papers that had, in fact, been drawn by the private law firm, on his own time…

in one of the great ironies of this session, I am forced to ask for a no vote on the D.C. conference report that will come before us later today. My appropriation is actually a local budget with the old federal payment now abolished…

This straightforward resolution will allow the Architect of the Capitol to permit temporary construction and necessary other work on the Capitol grounds. The site is along Constitution Avenue in my district between Second Street and…

I thought that I should go to Andrews Airport Air Force Base yesterday to welcome Jesse Jackson home. Reverend Jackson had helped raise the consciousness of the nation to freedom concerns in the District of Columbia when he was statehood…